The Le Mans 24-Hours anniversary race, marred by the tragic death of Allan Simonsen, was a huge popular success with record audiences. The first analyses speak for themselves and this event will remain in the annals for a long time. Here are the main figures.

Spectators at the circuit

· 245 000 spectators at the circuit, 5 000 more than in 2012.

· 24 000 spectators on the first day of practice (Wednesday 19th June), 47 000 the second day (Thursday 20th June).

· 1 178 television personnel, including 430 for televised production, compared to 914 in 2012.

· 30 international television networks bought the rights to show the 2013 race (23 in 2012).

· They covered 190 countries (same as in 2012).

· They enabled 707.3 million viewers to follow it (579.75 million in 2012).

· 126 TV commentary teams from all over the world were at Le Mans (85 in 2012).

Records for the race TV broadcasters

· Eurosport: new record audience with 24.4 million TV viewers over the coverage as a whole (17.7 million during the race) on the Eurosport and Eurosport 2 channels throughout Europe for a total of 44 hours broadcasting.

· France Télévision: a big increase. Sunday 23rd June, France 3 doubled its audience compared to 2012 with a peak of 2.3 million at the finish (16,7 % of the PdA). On all the broadcasts during the Le Mans 24 Hours France 2 and France 3 attracted an average of 1.3 million TV viewers (11.1% of the PdA), a significant increase compared to 2012. (the global audience figures will be announced at a later date).

Web TV

· 5 743 822 connections (3 200 000 in 2012).

· A peak of 111 570 simultaneous connections at 13 h 00 on Sunday 23rd June (new DailyMotion record, the previous ones were the recent election of the new Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, and David Beckham’s Parisian press conference)!